What’s a Gym? Oh a Gym!

Lately I have been getting many comments on my tendency to spend numerous hours of my time at the gym. People are worried about my physical health and maybe my mental health in relating to the thought process behind wanting to work that hard. Yes I am at the gym for about three hours a day, and yes I know that is a long time. I think peoples real concern is that I might have set a goal for myself that is too hard to reach. The truth of it is I do not have a goal. I go for the fun and relaxing experience that comes from pushing my athletic abilities.
As many former high school athletes know it is a rough transition from the massive amount of activity in daily practice and games to the norm of cheap beer and the deep couch groove of your average college student. Some people make the transition to this new life style with ease and have the gut to prove it. I, on the other hand, did not see this as the direction I wanted to go. If I did not have to work to pay my rent for this year I would have joined the OSU crew team and tried to have made something of myself there, but I did not have the time. That may be an option for next year, but for my time in college as of so far I have just hit the gym. I need to be doing something active and pushing myself or I will loose my mind.
I have found that not too many people relate to this idea. Most people want to be planted in that couch so deeply a person would need dynamite to jar them free. People are lazy and habits are hard to break, unless they are beneficial. So I love how no one talks to the person about being lethargic, and the ghastly outcome that is in store for those who waste their life in junk food. Four people who I know have come to me speaking with concern that I may be doing too much! Where is this concern for those who have bonded to the sofa? Do we fear dropping the self-esteem of the obese? Do we shy away from venturing into the area of political incorrectness when we call out the “fitness impaired”? I like the concern but I think it is misplaced. I think that we find it much easier to give advice and concern for ones safety to those who we know do not need it, and hide it from the people who might get upset at being pointed out as lacking.